Two years later, Occupy activists haven’t given up on the Gill Tract « Oakland Local

Driving down San Pablo Blvd into Albany, it’s easy to miss the Gill Tract — it looks like an ordinary plot of land. Something you give less than a cursory glance as you wait for the traffic light to turn. But unbeknownst to many, this 10-20 (depending on who you ask) acre plot of land is the last remaining site of class one soil — prime farming land — in the urban East Bay. Since April 2012 it has also been the site of a bitter struggle between local activists and the University of California (which owns the Gill Tract) over how the land will be put to use.